By SUDHIN THANAWALA SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. filed for bankruptcy Tuesday as the largest U.S. utility faces billions of dollars in potential damages stemming from wildfires in California. The utility filed documents in a U.S. court seeking Chapter 11 reorganization despite state investigators determining last week that its equipment was not…
DIAMOND BAR — Indoor and outdoor wood burning is prohibited Tuesday in most of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties because of weather conditions conducive to concentrated pollution, according to the South Coast Air Quality Management District. The agency issued a mandatory “no-burn” alert that will be in effect until 11:59 p.m. Tuesday…
The Los Angeles Board of Education is scheduled Tuesday to vote on the contract that ended this month’s six-day teachers’ strike. District officials also will consider a resolution calling on state officials to support a moratorium on charter schools. There could be drama attached to the board’s…
Fans of the Los Angeles Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers celebrate before Super Bowl XIV at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
Officials identified on Monday, Jan. 28, a pedestrian who was fatally struck by a vehicle in San Clemente on Friday. A vehicle headed north on Avenida Del Presidente collided with a woman just north of Avenida De Las Palmera at about 7 p.m., according to Carrie Braun, a spokeswoman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department….
Opening their public corruption case Monday against former Centinela Valley school Superintendent Jose Fernandez, prosecutors honed in on the $910,000 home loan he secured from the district and whether the school board was aware of it. On the first day of Fernandez’s preliminary hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court, an attorney for the school district consumed…
The official deadline to run for a vacant seat on the Orange County Board of Supervisors ended Monday with at least five Republicans and one Democrat in the race, a lopsided field that county GOP leaders fear could help Democrats gain a second seat on the five-member board. The six-week sprint to the March 12…
SANTA ANA — A Southern California engineer who planned to use stolen trade secrets to start his own medical device company in China is going to federal prison. Wenfeng Lu was sentenced Monday to 27 months in prison. Prosecutors say the Irvine engineer, who’s a Chinese national, stole trade secrets while working for two medical…
A federal jury has acquitted two Pomona police officers charged with using excessive force and lying in the arrest of a teenager at the Los Angeles County Fair. The not guilty verdicts, delivered Friday afternoon in a downtown courtroom, cleared Cpl. Chad Jensen of wrongdoing when he struck a boy,…
Storms predicted to drench Southern California this week will bring more precipitation to areas that already have received more than half of their annual rainfall totals this season, meteorologists said Monday. A gradual cooling of temperatures in the beginning of the week will lead into a slight possibility of showers on Thursday in Los Angeles…
